1. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to
check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
2. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with
Netscape Navigator 2.1 or higher."
3. You name your children Eudora, Mozillia and Dotcom.
4. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling,
like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your
lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two,
just for the free Internet access.
7. You laugh at people with 9600-baud modems.
8. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two
hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and
manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to
communicate with the modem. ...And you succeed.
10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when
using a word processor.com
12. You start introducing yourself as "BobPleacher at AOL dot
com."
13. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
14. Your cat has its own home page.
15. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
16. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you
check it again.
17. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
18. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are,
because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered
to ask.
19. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you
landscape.
20. You tell the cab driver you live at
"http://1018.se.gracestreet/richmond/apartment/up/html"
21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile